The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1887-04-15
FACTS FoR FARMERS.
BATES MILL, Mississippi, }
April Sth, 1887. s
SOMETHING Ikea CHANGE,

DATES MILLS mississippi,
April sth, 1887.
SOMETHING LIKE a CHANGE.
Did you ever see and hear the
like before? AT least from what
] can hear, Osyka viii be on Il
boom next. High time it was, to
be sure. Didn't 90 to say any
thing about that poor little Dried
up" it needs sympathy, rather
than criticism. But now, putting
all jokes aside, its trucking is not
10 be grinned at, by us "behind
the time fellers' out here. II
seems that we need truck, pluck,
luck or something, and now as a
little Of all would do lis no posi-
tive injury, s'pose we pluck into
truck, and leave luck in such 4
close place we can get him too.
Look abound your place now and
see il your fields don't look brown
and bare; think to yourself and
say TO your neighbor: "Would it
not be fine TO have this patch
planted in, and bearing peas, to
net US at least, two dollars per
bushel, hull and all. Quite con
ISOLATION to know we don't have 10
take the hull off. They would
freeze if we did, when they gel
way up in the North, where the
news papers say, it frostes such
big froetcs, that the people have
70 move It, 50 the cars wont slip
down, Its no wonder they ap-
preeiate our early Southern pro
duction, and are willing to 60
down in their pockets in proper
tion to their appreciation. Though
I'm not dead with old age, I'm
almost positive that changes have
taken place in years past, and
that they are continually taking
place, and it is obvious that every
change affords facility for 4 better
change. The once illconstructed
railway trans pulling along under
many disadvantages, now glides
over land with ease, affording com
fort to the passengers and en-
ployees. Electricity is now EN-
ployed in lighting it up, and what
viii we hear Of next.
A train ran from somewhere Il
somwhere else, by the force oi
electricity instead Of steam, SHOULD
not surprise any Ncstor. Now
friend farmers let lis know, thai
you have put the dogs after "Kins
Cotton" run him over the fenc,
and built the same SO high with ;
resolution to change, that ht
will never be able to get bacl
again. The result will be, n,
doubt, surprising to yourself, anc
every body else and all his kinfoIks
As il is at present, you just cal
deny, that you have to work hare
thirteen months in a year to max,
one third of a bale of cottoI
gross, to the acre, and $000000l
net. Looks as if any body woul,
at least try some other plan
little bit. You never can deny
mans facts ard figures unless yo
experiment a little bit. We
there's no use of always gassin,
about any thing, lets select gu
place now and have our plans a
made, and who knows but wha
we'll get prize some Of thes
days at "The Fair' grounds Q
Summit, by sending our produc
j. e., little Of the purest We hav
there. The Scotch proverb say
"Pluck at gown of gold an
you may get a sieve of il" W
can pluck at the prize and v
may get the praise II no more.
There's no use TO stand bac
and wait for some one else to IT
it and see if 1t pays and then sa
81 don't believe he's telling III
TRUTH" when at the same tim
he's making money and tellin
truth too. Two good thing
going on at once. Try it, fc
fun if nothing else, and after til
fun is all over see what nice &
you have your land in for anothc
crop the same year.
The fact that our land is poo
cannot be denied, so If we ca
raise two or more crops thereu
the same year, there certainI
must be some benefit derived,
the crops produced are in an
way proitables. J. f. P.